Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology

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Daniel Press

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"This book makes its point--a significant one about the relevance of participatory democracy to the issue of environmental sustainability--straightforwardly and without mincing words. It accomplishes the difficult task of both crystallizing and advancing the debate across the fields of democratic theory and environmental politics."--Albert R. Matheny, University of Florida

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Acknowledgments vii

1. Environmentalism Returns to the Democratic Fold 1
2. Environmental Political Thought and Democratic Theory 12
3. The Challenges to Democratic Environmental Policy: Social Justice, Technocracy, and Economics 28
4. Empirical Study of the Centralist-Decentralist Debate 61
5. Trees and Toxics 79
6. Challenges to Democratic Environmental Policy-Making in Forest and Hazardous Waste management 108
7. Conclusion 123
   Afterword: The Distant Democracy 136
   Notes 139
   Bibliography 153
   Index 161